In addition to the sworn officers, the Police Department employs two full-time and three part-time secretaries, five full-time and five part-time Communications Specialists, eight part-time Community Service Officers, and six part-time Special School Police (Crossing Guards). The complement of sworn officers established in 1998 is 36. In 1998 the Police Department established a Community Police Section after receiving Federal funding for 4 additional officers from a COPPS Universal Hiring Program grant. In 1993 the Board of Supervisors approved the establishment of SET (Special Enforcement Team) with three officers. The next seven years, as the community grew, the Police Department maintained the 24-officer level. The next growth occurred in 1983 when the force totaled 24 officers. Between 19 the agency remained at 18 officers, expanding to 21 in 1978. The agency continued to grow and in 1971, five additional officers were hired to the expanding department bringing the total officers to 16.

The department began with Chief Joseph Sheranko and three patrol officers. 24 preliminary hearing is set.The Board of Supervisors of the Township of Derry created the Derry Township Police Department on July 1, 1966. He eventually stopped resisting when responding deputies threatened to use a Taser, according to court papers.įriedline is charged with resisting arrest, defiant trespass and disorderly conduct. The deputy grabbed him and called for help, but reported Friedline was able to get out of his grip and head toward where the hearing officer was standing. “Friedline then suddenly stood up out of his chair, stepped over to (the hearing officer’s) side of the desk, and stretched his arms out towards her,” police said. The conference officer waved the deputy inside and said the proceeding was over, but Friedline refused to leave the room and demanded paperwork, according to court papers. A deputy reported in court papers that he listened to the proceeding for a few minutes and Friedline was speaking in a loud, agitated voice. for the hearing when deputies were summoned to the conference room. Friedline, 44, of Derry Township, was at the Greensburg courthouse June 20 around 3 p.m. Westmoreland County sheriff’s deputies charged a man last week after they said he lunged at a conference officer during a domestic relations hearing, according to court papers.

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